Hi!
When playing with arps and the small keyboard on the A4, you kinda instantly come up with cool stuff.
But when im recording it in real-time it sound like crap and not at all like i played it. Holding down keys for a whole bar is ok, but when varying the chords it turns out weird.
Does this sound familiar for anyone?
What am i doing wrong?
Anyone?
Patience…
Have you checked the note length?
Have you checked amp settings?
Have you used an effect that isn’t now being used or vis versa?
Have you checked transpose?
Have you checked the Arp speed and adjusted it?
I know the issue you are talking about and I’ve usually sorted it by note length not being set long enough.
Check also autoquantizing…
Ok, but that sound strange, doesnt realtime-record record note-length?
Quantizing, ah good thought! Ill check that. Thanks
Honestly, I’m not sure, however I have found it best not to look at it like a traditional Arp, and more like an elektron version of an Arp. 
No afaik Note lengths must be edited upfront. And yes take it as the Elektron styled version of an Arp. It is powerfull but needs some patience to get used to it. The Arp in my Monomachine first drove me nuts, until i realized the difference.
Doesnt seem to be anything wrong with the arp itself. Its recording it that doesnt seem to work.
Qountizing off doesnt help. This is really bad, is this some kind of known design flaw? It cant be a design by choise right?
Set the Note lengths too?
i have no problem at all. Arp is something you activate or not. If i set a metronome with 2 bars count and play my ARP correctly and having in mind a little before to the fourth bars to release a liitle before its reach the end. My arp is correctly recorded. Then it’s all about to p-lock the recorded notes in the sequencer. If chords (in polyphonic mode) you need to pay attention because if one note is a little bit before the others Arp will not be the same after quantize … SO quantization can have an impact on what you play when you sequence is quantized then it will not be the same if the quantization moved the groove you’re after.
Sometimes i prefer to set no quantize at all and come back myself in step sequencer mode after recording my arp so then i can make the timing better myself.
i can do whatever i want it’s recorded as expected.
but when varying the chords it turns out weird
You mean when you hit play after record, or when playing because sometimes it can sound weird if you miss the good transition between arpeggios. (if random is activated … arp is weird … kidding)
Sometimes it’s easier to record you notes (the notes who gives the arp you want) without arp activated and then when notes are recorded then activate the ARP and see if it’s correct if it’s not use copy/paste or micro-timing (and note length too … not arp length) to get the correct transition between your arpeggios
Arp is activated not recorded. What is record is the sequence of note who gives the arp you hear that’s not the same… and probably where your issue is… the best is too find what’s wrong in your recorded notes who didn’t match the arp your expected or played. (it’s often note length beetween the end of bars 4 when looping is come back to the beginning at bars 1)
Sometimes deactivate Arp, come back in step sequencer in grid mode and find what’s wrong with the recorded trigs can solved many issues.
Ok so when recording an “arpeggio-chord” and shifting to an other one, you have to retrigger all the notes.
Thats just really, really inconvenient.
Does the ARP in the Octatrack work in the same way?
Arp in the octatrack can be p-locked.
Haha I don’t want to hear about how great the Arp is on the octatrack! (btw, I am now getting one, so I shall also be in the cool kids club!)